Success in Latest Frank Robinson Auction?

You're not going to let that go, are you?

I didn't mean it negatively but apparently it came across that way .

 

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I won 4 out of 6 lots bid on (two coins, two lots of books). Of the two I lost, one was a scarce and decent coin I had put a reasonable bid on, but someone wanted it just enough more. The other loss was a scarce but very poorly preserved and ugly coin that I put in basically a "pity bid", but someone actually paid a decent price for it. Naturally, I will post the coins after I've received them. (Of my two coins won, one is Parthian and one is Sasanian, so I'm not setting them aside for next year's Guess the Owner contest.)

 

Sorry to be pertinacious but I do not see condition as the best reason to like or not like a coin. I have several coins in high grade but they were selected because they had some point of interest above and beyond grade. I do not pay extra for coins whose only point of interest is grade. I have purchased many boring (to me) coins. I even knew some were boring when I bought them but was not smart enough to leave them. The high grade ones are easy to move along when they outlive their welcome; the lesser ones tend to hang around.

 

That's one of the reasons I think most of my posts don't get many replies. Better grade ones get more replies whereas my lesser quality ones only get 4 at best.

It's like U.S. coin collector attitudes over on the PCGS boards. I see several condition snobs on the ancient section here, which is a shame.

I also don't feel the need to leave a paragraph as to a reason why I bought it. Sometimes you just like a coin & want to share it.

It amazes wrecks like the one below, as an example, can get many replies.

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/caesar-gaivs-avrelivs-valerivs-diocletianvs-avgvstvs.349381/

 

Threads starting with something as general as 'any Diocletian' are going to get more replies that threads specifying 'show your pre-reform Diocletians facing left' although even that may draw a few post of coins that don't fill the entire request by people who want to post something. I'm more surprised when many of us post our poor grade coins following the original in EF. It is all good. Many of us like to see coins whether we say, "I wish I had one like that" or "I'm glad I didn't buy that."

 

I'm definitely guilty of this. A lot of times I feel like a chump posting some of my coins. I doubt you old timers want to see them

 

My coins vary. Since I am collecting a coin of each emperor and personage of importance in Roman times, grade cannot always be great. Say, for example, a Pertinax or Didius Julianus denarius. While it would be great to get an EF example of one of these I recognize that this is not always economically feasible. Plus, sometimes I enjoy worn coins as they have passed through many hands over the course of centuries or millennia.

 

I wish you well with the project but hope you will consider what you will do when you get to the point that the ones you lack are so hard to find that you buy nothing for months. I do not have a coin of every emperor but I have multiples of some. I still don't have a Rome mint Pertinax or a Pertinax Provincial but having two different Alexandria mint denarii does not trouble me at all.

 

Hey, don't group us all together! Or did you mean just ancients collectors?

 

Yes...to both

 

OK,...but, keep 'em coming!

 

Hopefully FFIVN and I will pick up a couple new ones at the Baltimore show in few weeks.

 

Frank Robinson? Balto/Cincinnati Beisbol?

 

Yes to both.

 

Shoot. I had no idea he was a collector.

 

My coin from Frank arrived in the mail today!


Volusian, AD 251-253.
Roman AR antoninianus, 2.51 g, 21.1 mm, 1 h.
Rome, 4th emission, early AD 253.
Obv: IMP CAE C VIB VOLVSIANO AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust, right.
Rev: CONCORDIA AVGG, Concordia standing left, holding patera and double cornucopia.
Refs: RIC 167; Cohen 20; RCV 9742; Hunter 17.

 

Still waiting on my one win from FSR

 

Hopefully mine will show up Monday.